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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: pointer comparisons
- Message-ID: <9300812.4038@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:05:26 GMT
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- jss@lucid.com (Jerry Schwarz) writes:
-
- >In article <9300300.29980@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
- >|>
- >|> As I noted in a previous article, I don't agree with Scott Turners belief
- >|> that base class subobjects are objects. To me, these are absurd
- >|> consequences, and thus I conclude that the assumption used in deriving them
- >|> must be flawed.
- >
- >Perhaps fjh would specify some of these "absurd consequences".
-
- I meant the ones that I quoted in the article I was responding to
- (maxtal = John MAX Skaller):
-
- maxtal> One consequence: abstract objects can exist.
- maxtal>
- maxtal> Corollary: such objects have states not accessible via
- maxtal> the contiguous storage allocated for them.
- maxtal> (via virtual function calls)
-
- To me, an abstract class is a class without any actual objects of that class,
- so the idea of an "abstract object" seems to be an oxymoron. Similarly, the
- idea that an object can have "state" that is not stored in its "storage" seems
- to make a mockery of the whole idea of "storage".
-
- I can understand the opposing view, but it seems to me that we are just
- starting from different axioms. Anyhow, this discussion does not seem to be
- very fruitful.
-
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- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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